Helmut Krauss
German actor (1941–2019)
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- Helmut Krauss (11 June 1941 – 26 August 2019) was a German actor.
- Life Theater Helmut Krauss trained as an actor and studied pedagogy.
- In the 1970s he also appeared as a reciter at events of the left-wing and socialist movement in West Berlin.
- At the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg in 2005, Helmut Krauss took on the role of Don Geronimo, a friendly innkeeper who runs a cantina in the small Mexican town of Guaymas.
- The Störtebeker Festival on Rügen hired him for the 2006 season as Ambrosio.
Helmut Krauss (11 June 1941 – 26 August 2019) was a German actor. One of his best known roles was that of neighbor Paschulke in the ZDF series Löwenzahn between 1981 and 2019.
Life
Theater
Helmut Krauss trained as an actor and studied pedagogy. He has performed at the Forum Theater, the Grips Theater and the Hansa Theater in Berlin and at the State Theater in Hanover, among others. In the 1970s he also appeared as a reciter at events of the left-wing and socialist movement in West Berlin. As a cabaret artist he has performed as a partner of Hannelore Kaub in the cabaret Das Bügelbrett and several times in Dieter Hildebrandt's Scheibenwischer.
At the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg in 2005, Helmut Krauss took on the role of Don Geronimo, a friendly innkeeper who runs a cantina in the small Mexican town of Guaymas. At the same time, as in previous years, he played the narrator. The Störtebeker Festival on Rügen hired him for the 2006 season as Ambrosio. In Bregenz he played the role of Paul Bunyan in the play of the same name under the direction of Nicholas Broadhurst. In April 2008 he toured Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy with the Theater des Ostens production of The Name of the Rose.
Film and TV
The list of his appearances in film and television is long. He appeared first in the 1951 Austrian movie series Asphalt. (also known as Die Minderjährige klagen an) as Hellmut Kraus.
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